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Anyone else live here? I'm a fresh import, present for only a week, but looking forward to at least five more. The weather consistently lifts my spirits. The beach is nearby and beautiful. My only complaint is how spread out the city is. Happy to be on the west coast after all those years on the east. |
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welcome to the west coast. I am about 90 min north of San Diego. Enjoy |
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I barely know anyone down here! Is it time for a great XLT meetup?!?!! PS that photo took no effort, the beach is gorgeous. |
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I hear there are hot girls there, is that true- |
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sneakattack, what out for "the big one", ask Mr. IronLung, he knows what that means. Where did you move from- |
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I have seen quite a few. I am not as into asian girls as I used to be, however—bodies good but faces a tad too flat, I like cheekbones. People are much nicer here than out on the east coast, as well. |
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okay, I hope we'll all see the big one together. I've been in pittsburgh the past three years, and before that I was in manhattan three years. I drove across the country to get here, it was pretty nice. |
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long drive !! did you go through NE ? Im guessing there is a lot more plastic in California than on the east coast, a lot more skinnies (to skinny) than where you are from also. take more pics- |
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A friend was looking through a newspaper when he first arrived, and said that it was plastered with cosmetic surgery advertisements. I think I saw my first extremely obvious boob job two days ago: a slight asian girl in a tank-top with the tell-tale overly well defined tops-of-boobs. oh well. People are thinner it seems, yeah. I like thin girls, though. I've been taking pictures, and will take more. Slowly building up a webspace, though it is HIDDEN for now. I'm actually using a wiki engine, creating a matusopedia of sorts. |
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oh and, no, I didn't go near nebraska. I took a somewhat northern route to visit a friend in indiana. I was debating putting a post on xlt to have fun waypoints, but my life got crazy before the transit and it slipped my mind. |
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anyone else live around here? suggestions for activities? other than beaches and hot girls, those are rather good at self-advertising. advertising by existing. |
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the good music scene and porn? So why did you all of a sudden decide to move all the way across the country- for the porn? |
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Starting my PhD! Two bachelor's degrees is enough for me. |
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I just moved from San Diego, back to the east coast, about 2 weeks ago. Ask away, I'll give you the straight low down and keep you occupied... |
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oh, and where are you getting your PhD from in San Diego? |
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Holy shit! What were you up to over here! Main question--where's a nice, dense area with lots of good, cheap places to eat? that was a big part of new york city for me. Any similar areas with bars/clubs (bars with dancing/music preferable to clubs)? I'm not much into that sort of thing at all, but it's nice to break the ice with new people. (I didn't drink for two years but used it to this end for the past few months.) Which beaches were your favorite? Any good hikes? THANKS |
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UCSD |
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HAHAHA. I got my masters at UCSD, in their Visual Arts program. It was very excellent. Hillcrest has some really nice places to eat, as it is the more "cultural" area of San Diego. (I'm sure you've heard why). North Park is coming up fast and you should find some good places there, as well as cool book shops. There's cheap places on El Cajon, but becareful as things move east county. As for clubs, go downtown. There's massive amounts of people there on the weekends, so be careful as it will become a meat market by 11pm. Unless, of course, that's something you are interested in. Beaches... they're all great, but OB is really "towny" and quite nice. They've been notorious for fighting off Starbucks out of their neighborhood. And last but not least, check out the Whistlestop. It's a hip little bar in Golden Hills. There's always a DJ and on the weekends it is hipster booty bounce central. On Tuesday nights, its an event called Friends Chill... my friend Scott DJs IDM and all kinds of downtempo shit, while the bar is lit in candle light and people board games and Nintendo on the big screen projector. |
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All of that sounds very nice, thanks for the advice. I'd eat some rice, if only to construct a rhyme not thrice. The bookshop tip especially appreciated. I'm a huge douche, introverted and disdainful of most people. But I like having friends, and desperately need a way to meet people. I'll check out all the places you suggested. My single friend from before who lives here has his apartment in hillcrest, in fact, and I've been there; seems nice. I don't know what you mean, but I do know it's the gay area. Actually I've had guys hit on me each time I went to torrey pines state beach.. what's up with that? I'm definitely not a meat market person, but I won't meet girls in the CS department, so any new place to look is welcome. |
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I've talked to random hot girls three times, but never followed through. Everyone kick me, I suck. |
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If you got hit on at Torrey Pines, it's likely b/c you were close to Blacks Beach, the nudist beach at San Diego. Are you in Computer Science or CogSci? I took some classes with Jim Holland on data visualization in the CogSci program. Hang out at CRCA on campus. There is some crazy shit going on there. The art kids are very interesting too, so try to catch a lot of shows there. There is always something going on at the Visual Arts Faciility next to Sixth College. You should drop me an email. My best friend is still out there and he is very much an esoteric, reader, electronic musician type and is also looking to hang out with cool people. As a matter of fact, he may likely be up at Friends Chill tonight at the Whistlestop. |
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Girls in California are easy, so ive heard. The ones that dont eat grass drinks and then purge. |
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There's a lot of hot asian chicks at UCSD |
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yeah, but as I said, not in my department, and I'm clueless on how to come upon them otherwise. Hopefully things were work out somewhat naturally. recycle: random sex isn't really my thing. |
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computer science. Thanks for the next batch of advice. I'd definitely be up for meeting your friend; I'll probably bring my other friend along too, he's super awesome. I'll fire off an email to you in just a second. I didn't even know about CRCA—all your advice is awesome, thanks. |
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It's a bummer I just left, we would have totally gotten together. I used to ride the campus bus from the Hillcrest UCSD hospital into school, and there was always this kid who wore a Gridlock t-shirt. I never talked to him, but there are some people there who are into electronic music. It's not like it used to be, but there are still some excellent people around. The Broken Beat network puts electronic shows on often at Kadan and down in TJ. I saw Jega, edIT, eight frozen modules, tom burbank, and a shit load of people down there from time to time. Oh, and Miller Puckette teaches at UCSD and runs CRCA. He's pretty nuts and really awesome. As a matter of fact, he was on my thesis committee. He's not really into IDM, but into crazy electronic music obviously. (he created Max/MSP). |
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Miller Puckette, awesome! I have some schemes for music software; when I develop them some I'll go talk to him. You're a gold mine! well if you ever visit, keep me in mind. I don't post here consistently, but my email address (just a minute..) will be good for years. |
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Speaking of ComputerScience, Ben Fry and Casey Reas, who created Processing, often come to UCSD for talks. If you need to work with someone outside of your department, you should seriously consider meeting up with some of the faculty at the visual arts program. It's quite progressive there and you'll get a strong theoretical backbone. Lev Manovich is in the VA department, he wrote Language of New Media. As is Amy Alexander, a live coder/performer. Seriously, check those them out if your interested in situating Computer Science into contemporary critical culture. |
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email fired away. I'd better get some sleep, I have lots of work to do today. you are turbo awesome! |
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I'm jam packed with projects already, having ton lots of research in my ugrad, but I definitely want to branch out; it'll simply be hard the first year as I tie up loose ends, find my footing, and get the bulk of my coursework out of the way. I'll keep all that in mind; there'll definitely be time for serious side projects while I'm here. And, as you could imagine, I've always wanted to do a musically oriented project. |
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Not my thing either. Just say hi, ask if they would like to go out for coffee or go dancing, or some common interests. Its not a big deal, just be normal, and what ever happens happens. |
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check your email |
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That's a very nice looking level. Do you get health damage if you go in the water? |
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It's the first time in my life that I've been to a venue with music and heard good music, let alone 5 boc tracks. thanks, gl0tch!! |
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You could visit bohemian grove. |
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so, what? you are not using my avatar anymore. can i take it back without you using it EVER again? |
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so you went to Friends Chill? very nice. -M |
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i'm about 60 minutes away up north in laguna. i'm down for a zilty meet and greet anytime. |
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Could be fun! I'm sure there are others lurking within some relatively small radius; somehow we need to coax them out of the woodwork. LA must have more stuff—do you know if there are any nice electronic gigs coming up? If something looks promising, start a thread and let's do better than the UK meet-up they had a while back.. |
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san diego would be nice in theory if it was not located in southern california. I dont know what it is about that place but i just find it very very depressing. |
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